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Henry van Dyke 

And ideal thoughts 

by 

Whittier . Drummond . Ware 

Robertson . Beecher 

Hamilton . Etc. 




New York 
Dodge Publishing Comtjany 

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Traneter 

Army and Navy C^«* 

March 3,-931 




O be glad of life because it gives 
you the chance to love and to 
work and play and to look up 
at the stars. To be satisfied 
with your possessions, but not 
contended with yourself until 
you have made the best of them. To despise 
nothing in the world except falsehood and mean- 
ness, and to fear nothing except cowardice. To 
be governed by your admirations rather than 
by your disgusts ; to covet nothing that is your 
neighbor's except his kindness of heart and 
gentleness of manners. To think seldom of your 
enemies, often of your friends, and every day of 
Christ ; and to spend as much time as you can, 
with body and with spirit, in God's out-of-doors. 
These are little guide-posts on the footpath to 
peace. 

— Henry van Dyke 



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F there be some weaker 
one, 
Give me strength to help 

him on; 
If a blinder soul there be 
Let me guide him nearer Thee ; 
Make my mortal dreams come true 
With the work I fain would do; 
Clothe with life the weak intent, 
Let me be the thing I meant ; 
Let me find in Thy employ, 
Peace that dearer is than joy ; 
Out of self to love be led, 
And to Heaven acclimated, 
Until all things sweet and good 
Seem my natural habitude. 

— /. G. WMttier 






ET me to-day do some- 
thing that shall take 
A little sadness from 
the world's vast store, 
And may I be so fa- 
vored as to make 

Of joy's too scanty sum a little 
more. 

~E. IV. Wilcox 



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UARD well within your- 
self that treasure, kind- 
ness. Know how to give 
without hesitation, how to 
lose without regret, how 
to acquire without meanness. 

— George Sand 




AM quite sure that one 
secret of youth is to keep 
up with determined and 
steady hand, one's own 
tone, to avoid ruts and 



narrowing circles. 



—F. IV. Ware 



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T is not what a man gets, 

but what a man is, that 

he should think of. He 

should first think of his 

character, and then of his 

condition. He that has character need 

have no fear of his condition. Character 

will draw conditions after it. 

—H. W. Beechcr 







HE little worries which we 
meet each day, 
May be as stumbling- 
blocks across our 
way, 
Or we may make them stepping stones 

to be 
Of grace, O Lord to Thee. 

— A, E, Hamilton 



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ET the weakest, let the 
humblest remember that 
in his daily course he can, 
if he will, shed around him 
almost a heaven. Kindly 
words, sympathizing attentions, watch- 
fulness against wounding men's sen- 
sitiveness — these cost very little but they 
are priceless in their value. 

— F» W. Robertson 



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F any little word of ours can 
make one life the brighter; 
If any little song of ours 
can make one heart the 
lighter ; 
God help us speak that little word, and 

take our bit of singing, 
And drop it in some lonely vale, and set 
the echoes ringing. 




EXPECT to pass through 

this life but once. If, 

therefore, there is any 

kindness I can show, or 

any good I can do to any 

fellow-being, let me do it now, let me not 

defer it, for I shall not pass this way 

again* 

— Mrs. A. B. Hegeman 





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OU will find as you look 
back upon your life that 
the moments that stand 
out, the moments when 
you have really lived, are 
the moments when you have done things 
in a spirit of love. 

— Henry Drummond 



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